The SharePoint Overflow site has been converted into the Stack Exchange 2.0 family of sites. A few things may look a little bit weird; here's why:

Users have been imported from the old site. However, for the first couple of weeks, we are starting with a clean slate for posts, tags, and reputation. We have learned from previous imports that the community needs to work together to build this site. This means looking at what tags should be on the site, where to draw the line on what types of questions are on-topic vs off-topic, and the other 7 essential meta questions every site should ask. If existing content is immediately imported, it is much more difficult to see the tiny details that can make a huge difference in a site's success.

The posts from SharePoint Overflow are not completely gone! At first, though, you should focus on building this community. After that, we'll appoint Pro Tempore Moderators to help lead the site. Once this happens, we will re-add some of the best quality content from the old site. Users that own these posts will have their rep (and applicable badges) restored.

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The private beta phase was skipped since this was an import of an existing community so no beta badges are awarded.
– Geoff Dalgas♦Apr 8 '11 at 18:54

@Geoff, as of today, there is 1 person with the 'enthusiast' badge already. That requires 30 days of logging into the site. I logged in the first day it was open for the public and it shows 3 days for me. What gives? How can folks have more history than the rest of the world has?
– TangurenaApr 10 '11 at 6:59

user history was carried over from the existing sharepoint overflow.
– Geoff Dalgas♦Apr 10 '11 at 14:23

@Alex, thanks for the reply. I must be honest the StackExchange group design logo seems faded, and the buttons hand drawn. I think this is to make the whole site seem less formal or modern, but the best looking sites were always Stackoverflow (clean and crisp) and the old SharepointOverflow looked like a brother / sister site also crisp just different colors.
– JL01Apr 14 '11 at 12:11

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I think the aim is for it to look like a sketchpad, to represent that the site is still in beta, and yet to be defined.
– Alex AngasApr 14 '11 at 22:43